Charecter has no body
Sun, 11/07/2010 - 14:49
my head and weapons show up, but I have no body.
Sun, 11/07/2010 - 15:20
#2
my driver:
"ATI Mobility
my driver:
"ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3470 with 256MB DDR discrete graphics memory, plus up to 767MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using ATI HyperMemory™ technology."
not sure how to change it to an older version, and would that mess up anything else on my labtop if I switched to an older version?
Sun, 11/07/2010 - 21:33
#3
Hey, I had this last night on
Hey, I had this last night on my mobility 9550, macintosh.
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 01:29
#4
Interesting
I haven't seen this yet with my 4870 on Catalyst 10.8 (which I believe was that last major kick ATI plans on giving the 4800 series). I'll keep an eye out, but I haven't noticed any graphical glitches.
On Windows machines Catalyst 10.3 is a biggie as that is when they started supporting desktop and Mobility cards in the same driver package. That means you don't have to rely on your laptop manufacture for graphics updates - usually a very good thing as most give very lackluster updates.
Catalyst 10.6 release notes make mention of OpenGL 3.3 compatibility updates for all HD series cards. I'm unaware of what level of OpenGL SK requires, perhaps this should be added to the trouble shooting sticky? I would recommend this as a minimum release to use for anyone with a HD 3000 series or above as it enables Flash 10.1 GPU acceleration.
You can find Windows Catalyst drivers Windows Catalyst drivers here. Choose your Windows flavour and then scroll to the bottom of the page for older releases. You do not have to download the entire Catalyst Control Suite, for the average user the display driver is sufficient.
I can't give any help for Macintosh drivers. However a Mobility 9550 is actually below the minim spec of a discrete 8500. Mobility model numbers can be very arbitrary compared to discrete card model numbers.
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 21:26
#5
> I can't give any help for
> I can't give any help for Macintosh drivers. However a Mobility 9550 is actually below the minim spec of a discrete 8500. Mobility model numbers can be very arbitrary compared to discrete card model numbers.
OUCH.
My desktop has a 9300, and performs worse than my laptop with mobility 9550. I thought this was the better machine.
The windows machine has a 430 X, I think it was. (Other manufacturer.)
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 18:43
#6
Yeah, there tends to be a bit
Yeah, there tends to be a bit of shenanigans with card models sometimes. A descrete 9300 is supposed to be ~= to a mobility 9550, however they used to sell less function models under the SE label on the cheap. A way to recoup on manufacturing errors. Retailers tend to not mention if it was an SE because of the inferior performance. An NVidia MX 430 is even outclassed by Intel chip sets these days.
If your curious, this site is the rubric I'm using to judge relative performance levels. For some cards I have to estimate their performance since many boxed retailers sell modified graphics solutions that are not on the main market. You will notice that it seems like the numbering system can be backwards at times.
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 14:56
#7
Actually, its a 420. The
Actually, its a 420. The bottom of the GeForce 4 line. And apparently, it's a GeForce 4 only in name.
< Sigh >.
EDIT: The 9550 does have more performance than the 9300. The 9300 does not have the last performance enhancement that Mac Os uses (core image? graphics express? I can't keep track of what name goes with what processor improvements -- especially when sometimes two names refer to the same thing.) (It's the one that gives you wavy ripples when you add something to the dashboard.)
But I get a lot of crashes with the mac's kernel driver reporting that the 9700 driver ran out of FIFO's: Have 2, need 5, and deadlocking.
EDIT 2:
So apparently, from that site, the Geforce 4 TI's are about the same as the discrete 9500, and the 9300 and mobility 9550 are not listed, but numbers around that are around the GeForce 3 TI level.
Yucky. Well, now I know.
So what's new in the GeForce 4 TI that's not in the GeForce 3 TI or GeForce 4 non-TI?
Others have had this problem.
Short version: You need to change your graphics card driver, possibly to an older version.
Visit the website of your graphics card manufacturer (or, if using a laptop, your laptop manufacturer) to get drivers.
Also, post what graphics card you have here. So far it seems to be a problem with ATI Radeons.